Tacca. riEXANDRiA monogynia. 171 



divided parietal receptacles, reniforin, ribbed. Integu- 

 merit single, tough, dark brown. 



2. T. Icevis. R. 



Leaves oblong, entire ; petioles and scapes smooth. 



Mote munda, the vernacular name in Silhet, where it 

 is indigenous, and from whence it was introduced into 

 the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, where it blossoms dur- 

 ing the hot, and rainy season. 



Root a subcylindric, perennial tuberous body furnishing 

 numerous dark brown fibres, which penetrate the soil ia 

 every direction. Stem none. Leaves radical, petioled, 

 oblong, acuminate, entire, smooth on both sides ; general 

 length about twelve inches, and the breadth five or six. 

 Petioles about as long as the leaves, base sheathing, 

 above the sheathing part cylindric, and slightly grooved 

 on the inside, every part perfectly smooth. Scapes axil- 

 lary, solitary, shorter than the petioles, round, smooth, of 

 a dark green purple colour ; direction more or less re- 

 curved. Involucre four-leaved ; leaflets equal, and equally 

 disposed crosswise in opposite pairs, sessile, ovate, finely 

 acuminate, smooth, many-nerved, about two inches long, 

 and one broad. Flowers from six to twelve in the umbel, 

 intermixed with many long, filiform filaments, pretty 

 long pedicelled, large, of a dark greenish grey violet co- 

 lour. Calyx one-leaved ; tube or base bowl-shaped, and per- 

 manent ; border six-parted ; three exterior segments ra- 

 ther longer, narrower, and more pointed than the inner 

 three, which are broader, all deciduous. Filaments six, 

 inserted into the tube of the calyx near its base, vaulted, 

 with the linear, two-lobed Anthers attached to the inner 

 side of the vault. Germ inferior, clavate, turbinate, three- 

 sided, six-keeled, one-celled, and containing numerous. 

 ovula, attached to three bifid parietal receptacles. Style 

 short. Stigma of three rather recurved double lobes, al- 

 ternate with the stamina. 



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